PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25069, 10 November 1942, Page 4

PERSONAL AND SOCIAL

Mrs R. T. Little Is spending a holiday In South Canterbury. , Mrs R, Hudson will leave by air tomorrow for a visit to Auckland. Mrs lan B. Stevenson will leave to-day for a holiday in Auckland. Mrs H. Goldie, of Auckland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs Charles V. Smith, of Anderson’s Bay.

Mrs D. M. Holmes and Miss Frances Holmes will leave by air to-morrow for a holiday in Auckland. A The resignation of Miss D. N. Allan, M.A.! principal of the New Plymouth Girls’ High School since 1925, has been received by the New Plymouth High Schools Board at New Plymouth. Miss Allan is resigning because of ill-health, and if official approval of the resignation is given she will retire at the end of the first term of 1943. Her term of office is the longest of any headmistress at tl)e school. Miss Allan was born at Dunedin in 1888 and received her education at the Otago Girls’ High School. At the University' she won a blue and captained the University hockey team. She took honours in English and French. After pupil teaching, she joined the Rangiora High School staff. Her next moves were to the Wellington Girls’ College, Christchurch Technical College, and the Hamilton High School.

Some considerable time ago, for patriotic purposes, there was formed in Dunedin the Post and Telegraph Ladies’ Concert Party. This organisation has already done useful work, and has not relaxed its energies. Its latest venture is a patriotic concert to be held in the Concert Chamber of ithe Town Hall to-morrow evening.